No I don't agree. If development were proposed I would suggest it be along the lines of the SHLAA 2013 site allocations BO3/BO7 & BO8 and previous plans as submitted under the Charles Church (?) development proposal. Approaches to develop this land have been suggested over many years. This one now involves encroaching close to ancient woodland, destroying countryside and wildlife areas. Whereas previous options have centred around redeveloping existing houses/land fronting the Northiam Road.
I believe access for the new proposed site is not safe. The site is on quite a steep/blind bend and although the road speed has been reduced over the last few years, it is frequently ignored because drivers are either entering the village (Austens's Wood end) from a national speed limit zone to a 30mph zone or are leaving the more densely populated parts of the village by the crossroads to drive onto Beckley and Northiam and therefore begin to speed up in anticipation of entering the national speed limit zone. Using the land fronting the Northiam Road would give the opportunity to increase visibility in and out of any new access points or indeed, change the angle of such access points to allow traffic to flow more evenly into/out of the new development as opposed to a give way junction.
Services and utilities are already in existence.
Allotments could still be factored in to meet local demand.